At last, you can make a request online for FBI records under the Freedom of Information Act, There’s also a website where you can view and download the requested information. 

Finally you don’t have to send a request by regular mail, fax or email and twiddle your thumbs waiting for a mailed reply on paper or disc format.  

The FBI is inviting the public to use the open beta format eFOIA and to e-mail [email protected] with any questions or difficulties encountered while using the online system. The agency lists several steps to help test the system. The plan is to move eFOIA into full production mode in several months. 

“The eFOIA system,” David Hardy, chief of the FBI’s Record/Information Dissemination Section, said in a statement, “is for a new generation that’s not paper-based.” Hardy also notes that the new process should increase FBI efficiency and decrease administrative costs.